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Classical Guitar Essentials Advanced - Part 1 (Udemy.com)

Master Finger-Style technique and Bar Chords on the fingerboard

4.8
88 reviews

Created by: Hani Gamal

Last updated December 2022

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What you will learn

  • Take Grade 3 London College of Music exam
  • Have an understanding of Intermediate music theory
  • Play advanced classical guitar pieces
  • Learn 2 patterns for finger-style guitar

How it compares

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  • Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 81% of them
  • Reviews88#125 of 184 by number of reviews
  • Length3.5 hourslonger than 54% of them
  • Last updatedDecember 2022more recently than 66% of them

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Course Description

It’s time to roll up your sleeves and start playing advanced classical guitar music. This is your 5th course in the series “ Classical Guitar Essentials”, and you are about to enter the advanced level.

Over the last four courses, we established a very solid base to build upon it. If you’ve been following the courses, this one will take you a few steps forward in your journey.

  • The first section is dedicated to studying the Bar chords, something all beginners struggle with and even some intermediate players. We will learn about the Major and Minor bar chords only, the rest will be covered in later courses.

  • In the second section, we are dealing with the technical work for Grade 3 of London College of Music. This is where you are right now, so you need to learn this. Knowing the scales and arpeggios of this grade gives you huge advantages and technical abilities to be able to play the music pieces.

  • Next, we dive into the repertoire of Grade 3 with three of my favorite pieces: Aria, Andante by Sor, and Valse. These pieces will test your skills and your bar chord abilities, and of course, prepare you if you want to take the real exam.

  • After this, I dedicated two sections to music theory. Learning where the minor scales comes from, what are the relative keys, and how chords are constructed and other theory stuff is part of being a musician. Don’t worry about it, I explain everything with ease and link it to stuff you already know.

  • Then we have something new, an entire section for the finger-style technique. I always thought that classical guitar is the father of the finger-style technique, so from now on every course we will have a section about that. This will enable you to play pop or rock songs like “Stairway to Heaven”, or Simon and Garfunkel songs with ease and joy, so don’t skip it.

Finally, I end the course with a Concert Piece called “13 Days in France” by Francis Lay, a beautiful melody with everything you learned about bar chords and fingerstyle in there.

It’s time to take action and join more than 7000 students who took my courses.

See you on the other side.

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Instructor Details

Hani Gamal

Hi, I am Hany Gamal. I live in Egypt. I studied photography and video editing at fine art college. Then I took a 2 years course with the New York Institute of Photography.

I studied guitar with The Royal School of Music, and I finished Grade 8 guitar back in 2004.

My real passion is teaching, so I teach everything I know... photography, guitar, and even Rubik's Cube - which I can do in less than 2 minutes.

I worked as a freelance photographer, a camera-man, a video editor, and a guitar tutor at International British schools.

I run a chess club in my school where I work as a music and performing art director.

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4.8

88 ratings on Udemy

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By Martin Yeung on 5/27/2025

The teaching material is structural and I like such kind of systematic learning approach. However, I think the notes should add more information the reasons behind the teaching materials

By Tun Huang on 2/9/2025

As usual from Hani, the course is good. It's explained well with interesting pieces. However, there are a few minor errors and inconsistency between the video and the pdf (like different order). You can work them out, but they are a bit more than the previous courses. So I deduct one star. When I wrote Hani with some questions, he answered me very quickly and it was helpful. So one half star back. The few theoretical parts are nice (they are bonus anyway). Though I wish Hani would explain the context a bit more.

By John Shadrack Mandago on 3/2/2023

Excellent Classical Guitar Course. Highly recommend this course to anyone out there who wishes to learn and master Classical guitar! This course ( Series of Courses ) will take you from Zero/ Beginner to Hero/ Advance Pro!

By Joseph Jones on 3/15/2022

This is the 5th course I have taken in the series and it is going very well just as the others did. So much content and material. Can't wait to complete all the courses.

By Timothy Schmitt on 2/9/2022

Excellent teaching pace. Small chunks that build on each other. One lecture every day or two and the progress I have made is wonderful. These lectures remain a great reference resource for the future as well. Hani is a wonderful teacher.

By Cheer Yang on 10/4/2021

I really enjoyed learning from him. He teaches every step nicely not too slow not too fast. He is easy to understand.

By Jeff Morgan on 8/12/2021

Hani Gamal delivers, again, a terrific course. Builds very well on the previous courses and progresses within itself in a very organic way. Love learning guitar with such a great teacher. He is also very responsive to questions and very informative with his replies. Couldnt recommend the course more highly.

By Moasen Imchen on 7/20/2021

Easy to understand

By Steven Brener on 6/13/2021

Another home run by Hani. I love how systematic and step-by-step his approach is, his excellent pacing and his detailed and patient explanations. I really liked the three classical pieces (level 3) he chose, and the final piece was nice too. Looking forward to moving on to the next course, after working on some of the pieces from this one a bit more.

By Wolfram Hildebrandt on 4/18/2019

Interessante Stücke, gute Darstellung

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Classical Guitar Essentials Advanced - Part 1
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  • Level: Intermediate Intermediate
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